Items | Mandarin Mansion

Ottoman Turkish ribbon sword

A remarkable example of bladesmithing with a 5 row twist-core pattern that meanders over the blade.

€2300,-
Signed nanban style ship tsuba

Signed by an artist named Kanesada from Higo.

€600,-
Indian spearheads and butt

A set for the beginning collector.

€450,-
Khanda with etched blade

A late 19th-century type with an etched blade, simulating patterned steel.

€3500,-
Eastern Tibetan or Yunnan zhibeidao

A simple piece, but with a nicely etched blade typical for the Tibetan / Sichuan borderlands.

€600,-
Tibetan shortsword with pierced mounts

With characteristic pointy hairpin forged blade.

€1550,-
A fine north Indian dagger

Of jambiya form, with pattern welded blade and fine silver scabbard mounts.

€3800,-
Ceremonial peurise teumaga

Cast brass shield of a purely ceremonial type that was used during sword dances in Aceh.

€350,-
Vietnamese single edged spearhead

Large, heavy single-edged example with iron mounts.

€525,-
Peony karakusa tsuba

Executed in "nanban style" openwork with chiseled and gold-encrusted peonies.

€350,-
Sawasa style iron guard

Unusual piece with depiction of a foreign figure.

€350,-
Iron chrysanthemum tsuba

Large example with gold and silver overlay.

€150,-
Unusual dragon gate guard

Asian sword guard of unknown origin, modified in Japan.

€200,-
Japanese tsuba in Canton style

Also known as Kwanto-gata, with two facing dragon chasing a pearl.

€400,-
Peranakan "pending" buckle

Belt buckle from West-Java, worn by Peranakan and wealthy Javanese women.

€250,-
Ottoman Kurdish kalkan

A small, heavily reinforced buckler as used by Ottoman Kurdish infantry.

€600,-
Sabiki or "Wahhabite jambiya"

With a long, sword-like blade characteristic of this type. With original belt.

€500,-
The saber of Manchu Wu Songlu

A standard pattern Qing military saber, but with the rare addition of a label in Manchu.

€2000,-
A large Qing dàdāo

Large and heavy example with the notable Umlauff provenance.

€1800,-
Daruma tsuba

A peculiar tsuba with a depiction of Bodhidharma and two dragon chasing a pearl.

€420,-
Bhutanese "churi chenm" sword

This style was worn by nobles and senior officials.

€2550,-
Wan-gata tsuba by Kunihiro

Its outer surface is decorated with interlocking swastikas and family crests.

€460,-
Indian madu parrying weapon

Made with two antelope horns and an iron shield.

€800,-
Chin nicotine flask

A very rare flask used by Chin men of Burma for sipping nicotine water.

€360,-
Dayak carved ceremonial paddle

A fine ceremonial paddle of the Ngaju Dayak of southern Borneo.

€3000,-
Talwar with wootz hilt and blade

With Persian style blade, showing Indian workmanship.

€3300,-
Very good sikin panjang

Its blade with very fine and complex pamor, brought out by a polish.

€2200,-
Fine Peranakan belt buckle

This style was produced in Tangerang, just West of Batavia, now Jakarta.

€450,-
A Padri carbine

An unusual variety, shortened to carbine size, with a chicken wing wood stock.

€1600,-
A streaked lin gin

These ornate versions with hairpin forged blades were worn by local royalty.

€1700,-
A "Mecca" Jambiya

A style of dagger often associated with the pilgrimage to Mecca.

€650,-
A remarkable Khond axe

The best of its kind known to me, with silver overlay and ivory finial.

€2200,-
Double-edged Bhutanese dagger

With triple grooves and in heavy silver mountings.

€3200,-
Rooster fight kozuka

Executed in gold and silver on a shakudō nanako base, with golden back.

€425,-
Cast iron compass rose guard

A peculiar cast iron sword guard, probably from the South China Seas area.

€400,-
Afghan sickle, called lohar

Of typical design, forged from one piece of iron, overlaid with brass on one side.

€275,-
Unusual Chinese saber

Built around an imported blade, with a human head shaped pommel.

€800,-
SE Asian dha (carbon 14 dated)

In excavated condition. With XRF and radiocarbon dating results.

€600,-
An old dha (carbon 14 dated)

Found in excavated condition, published with results of c-14 and XRF analysis.

€1100,-
Nanban kogai & kozuka set (futakoromono)

The only set of its type known to me in both private and museum collections.

Price on request
The Wiasemsky Montagnard dha

Collected by a Russian prince from the hill peoples of central Vietnam in 1892.

€1500,-
A Sinhalese kirichchiya

A rare type of Sinhalese dagger with stylized bird hilt and blade with backedge.

€400,-
An excavated dha sword

With heavy blade and copper alloy hilt and lobed guard.

€700,-
Paiwan tjakit with provenance

It was collected by Laurens Langewis, an early 20th-century ethnographer and author.

€7800,-
Old Madura keris

With carved wooden hilt with a beautiful deep patina. Blade in old finish.

€400,-
Sinhalese coral hilted knife

Also known as piha-kaetta, this is more correctly a pihiya.

€2200,-
Balinese spearhead with scabbard

With fine twist-core pamor and carved wooden scabbard.

€2000,-
Acehnese peudeueng

With Hindu style basket hilt and local blade in European style.

€1200,-
Balinese keris

A classic example with an older blade and timaha wood scabbard.

€350,-
A fine, heavy piha kaetta

Of the chopper variety, with a finely carved ivory hilt.

€1650,-
Sinhalese kirichchiya

With carved horn hilt and characteristic finger guard.

€300,-
An early "piha-kaetta"

Of nice quality, with unusual openwork silver bolster with serapendiya.

€1500,-